About the Authors

Carolina Mehaffy

Carolina.mehaffy@colostate.edu

Current address: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Affiliations Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Canada, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Jennifer L. Guthrie

Affiliation Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Canada

David C. Alexander

Affiliation Saskatchewan Disease Control Laboratory, Regina, Canada

Rebecca Stuart

Affiliation Toronto Public Health, Toronto, Canada

Elizabeth Rea

Affiliation Toronto Public Health, Toronto, Canada

Frances B. Jamieson

Affiliations Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Canada, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CM FBJ DCA. Performed the experiments: CM JLG. Analyzed the data: CM DCA JLG RS ER. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CM FBJ. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: CM. Review and edit the manuscript: JLG DCA RS ER FBJ.